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Model Airplane Hobby Circuits, Page 4
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Last Updated on: Wednesday, December 20, 2017 05:05 AM


Circuits Designed by Dave Johnson, P.E. :
  • Model Airplane Wing Tip Flasher
    The circuit below is designed to flash two white LEDs mounted at the wing tips of a model airplane.  The flasher unit is powered by a 4.5v supply made of three AA or AAA 1.5v alkaline battery cells.  The average current is about 2ma so a set of batteries should last about 1000 hours of flashing. The circuit uses one hex Schmitt trigger inverter to perform all the timing functions. A single n-channel FET drives the two LEDs, each with a peak current of about 20ma.  The circuit flashes the two LEDs in a pattern typical of commercial airplanes. 

Links to electronic circuits, electronic schematics, designs for engineers, hobbyists, students & inventors:

Pad launch Controller for model rockets -  (electronic circuit added 4/05)
Phase Shift Radio Direction Finder -  (electronic circuit added 4/05)
PIC Based rocket altimeter -  (electronic circuit added 4/05)
Precision Digital Altimeter -  The current concept incorporates a wireless transmitter and receiver and is thought to be used for remote controlled airplanes or appliances with two seperate parts. In other words, we have one dedicated transmitter (acquisition, filtering) and one dedicated receiver part (user-interface, look-up table, calibration, storage), capable....(added 4/05)
RC Model Aircraft Motor Control -  Microchip Application Note Published 18-Jul-02  (App Note added 2/06)
Servo Wiring Chart -  After 1991 or so (I can't remember), most of the major brands of servos became compatible with each other. You can use any of these brands of servos with any brand of receiver. Some brands of servos are really great for a particular use in a particular plane, and there are other companies that sell their servos with each different....(added 2/06)
Single Chip Builds Tiny Aircraft Receiver -  09/25/97 EDN-Design Ideas....It's easy to become bored spending time in airports. After all, you can do only so much work on a notebook computer with no reference material around. So, relax and have some fun at the airport--build the tiny, single-chip, aircraft-band radio in....[Design Idea by Steve Hageman, Hewlett-Packard, Santa Rosa, CA]

Speedy-2 -  6 10 Cells / 40 A Speedcontrollers for Model-Aircrafts (electronic circuit added 11/06)
Speedy-3 -  Speedcontrollers for Model-Aircrafts with optocoupler (schematic added 11/06)
Speedy-BL -  Speedcontrollers for Model-Aircrafts controller for brushless and sensorless motors (electronic design added 11/06)
The Battery Eliminator Circuit -  The Battery Eliminator Circuit, or BEC, is one of the tools at our disposal to reduce weight in our electric models. A typical four-cell 600mAh nickel cadmium (NiCd) battery supplied…. [Stefan Vorketter's web site]
Versatile Miniature High-Rate ESC with BEC & Brake -  This electronic speed control (ESC) for brushed motors combines the features of two of my earlier designs. One was a high-rate 30A ESC with a brake, and the other a high-rate 12A ESC with a BEC (receiver battery eliminator circuit)….. [Stefan Vorketter]
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